In the 40 years Saturday Night Live has been on the air, a number of Rochesterians and people with connections to the community have contributed in one way or another. Here are 10 of them.

10. John Lithgow is a RINO — Rochesterian In Name Only — who grew up mostly in Ohio but was born in 1945 at Strong Memorial Hospital. He hosted Saturday Night Live twice, in 1985 and 1987. In one 1987 skit, he played the Rev. Dwight Henderson, the "World's Meanest Methodist Minister."

"Regarding your invitation for Easter dinner — in something akin to a nightmare, I imagine myself seated with you and your grotesque family suffering through an evening of what passes for conversation," he writes to a parishioner. "The image compels me to shun your home as I would some kind of dread skin disease."

9. Plenty of Saturday Night Live characters have come through Rochester on stand-up tours, but Jimmy Fallon has a closer connection than most. He is good friends with Damien Mulconry, owner of Mulconry's Irish Pub and Restaurant in Fairport, and has been seen there on multiple occasions.

8. Philip Seymour Hoffman never appeared on Saturday Night Live, but he was portrayed by cast members several times. In October 2013, cast member Beck Bennett was Hoffman auditioning for Fifty Shades of Grey. And in December 2012, Jason Sudeikis played Hoffman playing Pigpen in a Peanuts spoof.

7. Eddie Murphy grew up in Brooklyn, but spent several summers in Rochester with a local family as part of the Fresh Air program, which brings New York City children upstate for vacation.

He referred to that time in a 1983 stand-up routine: "I went to Fresh Air Fund, ever went to that? where they take a kid from the city and take him to the country and (bleep) their minds up?"

In a 1983 article in People magazine, his host mother, Beverly Kildea, recalled: "He was a wild and crazy kid even then. Once I took my five white kids and Eddie shopping, and in the middle of the store Eddie yelled out, 'Hey Mom!' I could have killed him."

6. Kirk Douglas, the heartthrob actor who starred in movies like Spartacus and Seven Days in May and hosted Saturday Night Live in 1980, grew up in Montgomery County but spent three months working at the former Rochester Can Company factory during a summer off from St. Lawrence University.

According to a 1958 article in the Democrat and Chronicle, Douglas came to Rochester in pursuit of a young woman he'd met through a college classmate who lived here.

"When summer vacation came, he found a job running a machine that stamped out cans," according to the article. "Any job would have been all right so long as she was in the same city. They became engaged. It was a romance, however, that went the way of many another twosome of college days, and later Douglas ... went to New York and made his acting bow on the stage."

In a 1969 article in the Times-Union, Douglas said he had "a whale of a good time" in Rochester.

"The machines did the work, so by the end of the day I had lots of steam left for my social life, which was mostly dating the girls," he said.

5. Mimi Kennedy, an actress born in Rochester in 1948, auditioned for the pilot cast of Saturday Night Live. She performed a song called "I Am Dog," a parody of Helen Reddy's song "I Am Woman."

"I noted with pleasure that Chevy Chase had fallen to the floor upon hearing it," she wrote in her autobiography, Taken to the Stage.

Unfortunately, Reddy refused to release the rights to the original song, and Dick Ebersol, Lorne Michaels' early deputy, decided Kennedy was not "white bread" enough to fit into the cast.

"That fall in Oswego, New York, I watched Saturday Night Live and realized the defining moment of fame had arrived for our generation and I'd missed it," she wrote in her autobiography.

4. At least two Rochester musicians have played on the show. Steve Gadd was born in Irondequoit in 1945, attended the Eastman School of Music and became a highly sought-after studio drummer, playing with Steely Dan, Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Clapton and James Taylor, among others.

In 1976, his band, Stuff, played on Saturday Night Live several times, including as a backing band for Joe Cocker.

In 1997, the band Spoon played on an episode hosted by Seth Rogen. Spoon's keyboardist, Eric Harvey, grew up in Rochester.

Another famous Rochester musician, Lou Gramm, never appeared on the show but had his music featured on it. The song "Cold as Ice," off Foreigner's debut 1977 album, played over a short film featuring a homicidal woman murdering a man played by Stacy Keach.

"We had no advance warning that they were going to use the song, but we were thrilled to tears because SNL was hugely popular and it was a great promotion for the song," Gramm wrote in his 2013 autobiography, Juke Box Hero.

3. Rochester has never figured prominently into a Saturday Night Live skit, but it has gotten a few mentions.

In 2010, guest host Emma Stone was part of a skit with cast member Paul Brittain as he portrayed his recurring character 'Sex' Ed Vincent, who leads seminars exploring some unusual corners of human sexuality.

In 2003, cast member Horatio Sanz played a zookeeper on Brian Fellow's Safari Planet, a recurring skit starring Tracy Morgan as "an enthusiastic young man with a sixth-grade education and an abiding love for all God's creatures."

In 2007, the Living Word Assembly of God Church in Ontario, Wayne County, hosted an event called Porn and Pancakes to discuss the effect of pornography on society, and it was mentioned on Saturday Night Live's weekend update segment.

"(The event) is expected to be much more successful than the previous breakfast, which was just pancakes," host Seth Meyers said.

2. Dean Edwards graduated from Batavia High School and then attended Monroe Community College and Rochester Institute of Technology.

It was as a student at MCC in 1992 that he first tried his hand at stand-up comedy. He did well enough that within 10 years he'd made it onto the cast of Saturday Night Live, working there from 2001 to 2003. He specialized in impersonations, including Denzel Washington, Michael Jackson and Don Cheadle.

In one skit, he, Michaels and Morgan turn the tables on guest host Ashton Kutcher, then the star of the show Punk'd.

1. Kristen Wiig is, of course, the most prominent Rochester connection to Saturday Night Live. She was born in Canandaigua and graduated from Brighton High School in 1991 before moving to California and starting her acting career.

She debuted on Saturday Night Live in 2005 and stayed until 2012, developing memorable characters like Gilly and the Target Lady. Earlier this month, Rolling Stone ranked her number 14 among all cast members in the show's 40-year history.